They do a good job on the AAAhz and Skeeve series as well as the Phule's company series.

While they don't play well in military SF I also think: Nancy Kress and Kristine Katherine Rusch would have fun playing in the Honorverse.

Asprin would have been a good choice, except he died in 2008. Another writer to add to the list of who'd have to turn his work in by medium or seance. And Jody didn't work in the Phule's Company series. Robert's coauthor there was Peter Heck, I believe.

C J Cherryh- I super enjoyed her Chanur series and one of my favorite books of hers isn't even SciFi (that would be "The Paladin") I think she could do very well with the Honorverse material.

Mike Stackpole- The Author that got me into miniature wargaming (via his early battletech novels). His Star Wars books I felt were pretty good and if he can wrap his head around the Honorverse stuff, I think he'd do well.

Loren L Coleman- Another battletech writer who has dabbled in other genre (Conan, Star Trek) and done well.

(disclaimer- I have met both Stackpole and Coleman... and both were pretty cool when I met them...)

Eagleeye wrote:First - I know, RFC is the sole arbiter to decide who he invites to write in his Honorverse (or any of his other universes). That's his prerogative and noone wants to change that. Nonetheless I'm curious - If you could influence the decision somehow - from which author (aside the ones who already had the honor) you would like to read a Honoverse-short-story?

I, for example, would like to read, how someone like Nnedi Okorafor (Binti, Who fears death, Akata witch) would use the Honorverse to put some new facettes into it.

As an avid reader of everything Star Trek, I naturally think of authors who have done a lot of work in that area. David Mack is the first one to jump to mind. His Trek novels are, at least in my opinion, the best of the lot. Dayton Ward is another one. For non-Trek authors, I echo a previous poster who suggested Elizabeth Moon, and I'd like to add David Drake and Lois McMaster Bujold.